commercials?

[spokewench]

Remember you are talking about the United States of America and advertising. The all mighty, god given right of all Americans is to drive a vehicle, the bigger the better, the fancier the better, the faster and more discourteous the better and you better not take that right away, or make it more expensive to drive, or anything else! When you kill someone in a car, it is always "AN ACCIDENT".

Bike advertising would be sacriligious (SP?), and VERY VERY UNPATRIOTIC!

(Any of our compatriots out of the States who live in more bike friendly worlds, have any comments?)

Thanks for letting me rant - maybe homeland security will come after me now?

[velogirl]

Does anyone remember the television spots about a year ago (Volkswagon, I think) where a driver doored a cyclist? I never saw the commercial but it was all the buzz among the cycling advocates here in SF -- they apparently got it pulled and a big, public apology.

SW makes a good point.

BTW, most of the bike shop commercials are canned packaged from their primary brand. For example, Trek has a commercial available and they just drop in the local shop's name and logo. So, you might see the same commercial for Shop ABC in San Francisco and Shop XYZ in San Jose.

[KnottedYet]

There's a newspaper ad (only in the "alternative" papers though) for a shop here that compares the price of a commuter bike to 5 tanks of gas.

Kind of clever visuals. Unfortunately it's for a shop that sold it's soul to the forces of evil. But I still like the ad.

Don't think I've ever seen a bike or bike shop ad on TV here.